In my experience it is crucial; that everybody without exception; parents grandparents children – (significant other) who ever is directly involved in your immediate life

All have a sit down with your pain doctor and have them ask any question, let the doctor answer, believe you me it carries a lot more weight if the same words came from a doctors mouth, then yours.

I remember some of the question; my parents both in the seventies asking the doctor if I’m going to become a drug addict? My son asked if I was going to die, my wife just simply asked;

“Please tell me when am I going to get my husband back?”.

I will be honest with you; it was not easy for me to sit back and listen to them, to see the desperation on their faces. I never realized how much it affected them.

You know something; at the end of the day, my pain situation did not change, however;

Now when I take my pain killers in front of my parents I’m not questioned any more, when I have one of my flair ups and my pain levels are extreme my kids know, this will not kill me( leaving toys on the floor so I could trip over them will)

As for my wife, well let us just say; we are optimistic.

Understanding the situation with the “right” information is, one of the most important step in the recovery process